Musings on writing, parenting, and other saintly pursuits.
"How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!"
Friday, May 09, 2008
a child said, "what is the grass?"
....fetching it to me with full hands.
If you care about Whitman, and about music, buy, steal, download this CD.
I guess the grass is itself a child.
If you care about poetry, and Nick Cave, and harlots, and Emily Dickinson t-shirts, read this blog.
Smile, for your lover comes.
Prodigal you have given me love
therefore I to you give love.
O unspeakable passionate love.
I have such a crush on Kurt Elling!
We also descend, dazzling and tremendous as the sun
We found our own o my soul in the calm and cool of the evening
God bless Fred Hersch....
I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul
my course runs below the soundings of plummet
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2 comments:
You will laugh, but I just checked out 'Leaves of Grass' from our local library about a month ago [and just renued it] as my Greta was studing Transcendentalism and realism in honors english and I realized that it had been way too long since I visited with Whitman.
I will go find this music right away.....
and I'm so exicted to think that we might meet this weekend.
That's so cool, Tara! I can't wait to meet you guys...
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